I think these would be a great addition to the release notes, this is fine with me.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Thomas Beck <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for your encouragement Howard, Paulo & Piotr! > I will wait one more day and if no one is complaining I'll add a section to > our release logs. > > Many greetings, Thomas > > > 2014-02-23 22:10 GMT+01:00 Piotr Arłukowicz <[email protected]>: > >> Thomas, I've never seen your videos, they are VERY welcomed and valuable >> help for many artists! Thank you! >> >> cheers! >> Piotr >> >> >> >> Piotr Arłukowicz, PhD >> University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics >> Division of Artificial Intelligence, Wit Stwosz 57, 80-952 Gdańsk, room 121 >> phone: +48585232125, University home page: http://inf.ug.edu.pl/~piotao >> Also: Polish Blender Course: http://polskikursblendera.pl/ [PL] >> >> >> 2014-02-23 22:01 GMT+01:00 Paulo José Amaro <[email protected]>: >> >> > Thomas, your videos are very exciting! I'm always waiting for what's >> next! >> > :-D I think both the release notes and your videos are important, they >> has >> > different content and different approach. Both should be presented at >> > blender.org. >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 5:29 PM, Howard Trickey < >> [email protected] >> > >wrote: >> > >> > > I like your videos and think they would help people understand the >> > features >> > > of the new release as a supplement to the release log, and support >> > linking >> > > to them off of that page. >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Thomas Beck < >> > [email protected] >> > > >wrote: >> > > >> > > > Hi friends, >> > > > >> > > > In short >> > > > ---------------------- >> > > > Today I'd like to propose smth.: To add a section to our release logs >> > > with >> > > > the sneak peek videos for the 2.70 series that I released once a week >> > for >> > > > every Blender release. >> > > > >> > > > You can see the playlist for the current version here (every new >> > version >> > > > gets a new playlist) >> > > > >> > http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfceNesfWvLUCsnw1DR2Oup8hFw5z6SB2 >> > > > >> > > > The longer story >> > > > ---------------------- >> > > > My name is Thomas Beck, I'm the head of a small studio called >> > > > Plasmasolutions (therefore the nick) here in Germany. Many of you >> know >> > me >> > > > at least from the #bcon13, from IRC and as a #b3d dev. >> > > > >> > > > I'm teaching, using and hacking in Blender a lot and am pretty >> frequent >> > > in >> > > > touch with the user base. While talking with users I often heard that >> > > they >> > > > don't know many of the new features of our releases and that they >> feel >> > > like >> > > > they were taken by surprise when we changed something suddenly and >> > > > important for them (but for us maybe not) - they are mostly not >> reading >> > > the >> > > > ML or discussing with us on developer.blender.org. >> > > > >> > > > So I created a series of videos that show our current development >> > > progress >> > > > every week, give some insight into the development and create some >> > > interest >> > > > in new features - and I have to say: The comments are overwhelming >> > > positive >> > > > - users feel more as if they were "part of the development" (I know >> > that >> > > > they actually are, but they don't felt like that) now and that they >> > could >> > > > get a feeling for new features now early. >> > > > Apart from that I'd like to give a bit of shine to the hardworking >> devs >> > > > that are often forgotten outside the dev universe - so I credit as >> much >> > > as >> > > > I can ;) >> > > > >> > > > Reading through the comments on yt and blenderartists, many are >> asking >> > to >> > > > make that the standard way of a release log and that we (devs) should >> > put >> > > > those sneak peek videos on the www.blender.org page and on the >> release >> > > > notes (maybe as a new features section in companion with cool Blend >> > files >> > > > that represent the features). >> > > > >> > > > I absolutely don't think that this should become the standard way of >> > > > release logging - I for myself really enjoy reading (and writing) >> > release >> > > > logs and have a non-videoish way to look up key combinations and >> ideas >> > > that >> > > > led to the development of a specific feature! But people are lazy >> and I >> > > > think we could help them by adding those vids to the logs and maybe >> the >> > > > website ;) >> > > > >> > > > Ton finds the videos cool and supposed I ask you guys here...so >> what's >> > > your >> > > > opinion about this? Btw.: Bastien is already using a few to light up >> > his >> > > > dev work. >> > > > >> > > > Many greetings ... and go Blender go! >> > > > Thomas >> > > > >> > > > ------ >> > > > Plasmasolutions >> > > > Design | Development | Training >> > > > >> > > > Website: Http://www.plasmasolutions.de < >> http://www.plasmasolutions.de/ >> > > >> > > > Blog: Http://blog.plasmasolutions.de < >> http://blog.plasmasolutions.de/> >> > > > >> > > > Telefon: 0176 2017 9565 >> > > > _______________________________________________ >> > > > Bf-committers mailing list >> > > > [email protected] >> > > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > Bf-committers mailing list >> > > [email protected] >> > > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Paulo José O. 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